Books

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” This is not just the famous last line from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. It also capt...

Crossing over into Bihar, Banerjee recounts her visit to the Vikramshila Gangetic Dolphin Sanctuary near Bhagalpur and a sense of wonderment is evident in her sighting of the endangered Ganges River D...

Vivek’s mother’s speculations about the circumstances of her son’s death occupy the last portion of the novel. That apart it cannot be categorized as being about any one thing even i...

Not all of these experiences were positive. There are shocking details of sexual harassment that she faced as a student at Oxford at the hands of a famous economist. She does not name him but he is no...

In his hilarious and heartbreakingly self-deprecatory autobiography, Elton John addresses important questions about his life. The iconic musician does not shy away from the more painful details, but h...

In the eyes of the law, rights cannot exist without responsibilities. But does the absence of legal rights also absolve a person of moral responsibilities? This is the dilemma that propels the plot of...

Expanding the cultural and geographical arcs of recycling, Emily Cockayne’s book says that the planet’s future may depend on the magic of jugaad. ...

Biographies of famous men and women are a genre which particularly interests me. They help you learn the historical milieu in which they operate and gives a perspective as to what makes them the perso...

The Persians believed that wine was discovered by a woman; she drank fermented grape juice from a jar, fell asleep and, instead of suffering the first-known hangover, woke up with her headache gone. C...

A strong anti-Muslim, anti-Christian and anti-Congress prejudice prompts the authors — they are admirers of V.D. Savarkar — to make some outlandish accusations. “For a long time now,...